Here's the secret they don't tell you about space travel: It hurts. Spacesickness is common, particularly for first-timers and anybody who launches into a bunch of fancy spins or soaring across the station before they've had time to get acclimatized.

Photo manipulation can give designers inspiration and new ideas. Some of the following images exhibit a more realistic approach with mixed elements. Here now some of the best artwork of Olli Pekka Jauhianen. I hope his work inspires you.

On the ever-so-spooky Friday the 13th in November, the company's first-ever 24-hour location will open in the heart of New York City. The 48,000 square foot store will be located on the corner of 14th Street and 4th Avenue, right smack dab in the midst of historic downtown Manhattan's Union Square.

"OxyContin is like Heroin, except it's made by a pharmaceutical company, so you know what you are getting..." - new Vanguard doc. Correspondent Mariana van Zeller travels to South Florida, the "Colombia of prescription drugs", to expose a bustling pill pipeline that stretches from the beaches of Ft. Lauderdale to the rolling hills of Appalachia...

While we may be nervous about Microsoft's Project Natal branding strategy -- remember, that's just a codename -- the suits in Redmond share no such concern. That's because the Natal project is following Nintendo's lead in more ways than just easy-to-play, motion-based technology. It's also following Nintendo's branding strategy.

One of the dubious pleasures of watching world-class soccer is observing the way grown men and women react when tackled. Sometimes, yes, there's genuine pain and shock there. But other times ... well, it seems just a tad over the top.

In Canada, health care is viewed as a human right, not a commodity, as it is viewed in the U.S. Though there is increasing pressure in Canada to enlarge the private sector's role in medical services, Canada maintains its publicly-funded Medicare system.

Movies that either accidentally or deliberately embody a fundamentally adult understanding of the world, an ironic or tragic or frankly frightening picture of life that will either terrify the youngest viewers or sail right over their heads.

After reporting big profits over the last six months, Bank of America reported a net loss of $1 billion in the third quarter as growing numbers of consumer loans soured and the bank paid millions of dollars to wean itself off government life support.

Apple on Thursday made a subtle yet major revision to its App Store policy, enabling extra content to be sold through free iPhone apps. It's a move that immediately impacts the publishing industry, and it could pay even bigger dividends if the Cupertino company indeed delivers its highly anticipated touchscreen tablet.

Two bubble maps show the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere by different countries. Left - cumulative emissions since 1751; right - emissions in 2006. The two diagrams are to scale. The colours of the circles indicate membership of the G20.

YTMND (You're The Man Now Dog) is a creative community that, like the forums 4chan and Fark, starts a lot of internet memes that spread to YouTube and blogs. The first was founded in 2001 to commemorate the precise moment in Finding Forrester that Sean Connery lost his remaining dignity, but more sites grew later, and some remain gems to this day.

When it started, The Office was a show about regular people like you and me working in a dead-end job at a generic company. Now, it looks like Jim and Pam are the only normal ones in the bunch. Every other character on the show has turned into an over-the-top caricature of those personality quirks that used to make them relatable.

Like Mark Twain said of his misapplied obituary, the report of the death of the hydrogen fuel cell is an exaggeration. And no wonder: Take the universe's most abundant element, hydrogen, pass it and air through an on-board fuel cell, and produce electricity to power our cars.

Society functions on a set of rules and regulations that are typically designed for our benefit and well-being as a community – whether we like them or not, laws are in place to promote the greater good. However, every so often a nit-picky law is put in place that makes little sense to the greater public concern.

The trend didn't begin with Ashton and Demi and it won't end just because Roman Polanski was brought to justice. This world is rife with lovers who find age is nothing but a number. Here are the 16 Most Entertaining Age-Lopsided Relationships in Movie History!

Quarterback gets denied on a high-five from 6 different teammates in a row. All fired up, Badgers QB Scott Tolzien went to celebrate with his team by trying to high five his teammates, they showed their disapproval for their quarterback's performance by giving him the cold shoulder. Not a single player on the team wanted to high five Tolzien.

Two of the main judges appointed to the upcoming Pirate Bay appeal have been accused of a conflict of interest, since they have both been members of pro-copyright groups. The appeal court decided that the judges are not biased, but the defense has announced that it will take the case to the Supreme Court, which is likely to delay the trial.

From Snowflake the white gorilla to White Diamond the alligator, Albino animals seem to be everywhere these days. This month alone, we've seen an albino squirrel, an albino magpie, an albino kangaroo and an albino alligator.

Using yeast, Kris Gevaert from VIB/Ghent University and colleagues from the universities of Freiburg and Bochum have succeeded in making virtually the complete inventory of all the proteins in the mitochondria, the energy producers found in every cell.

iRobot's latest robot is unique on many levels. The doughy blob moves by inflating and deflating - a new technique its developers call 'jamming.' As the researchers explain in the video below, the jamming mechanism enables the robot to transition from a liquid-like to a solid-like state.